mReFinED: An Efficient End-to-End Multilingual Entity Linking System

Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Weiwei Cheng, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amir Saffari, Jens Lehmann


Abstract
End-to-end multilingual entity linking (MEL) is concerned with identifying multilingual entity mentions and their corresponding entity IDs in a knowledge base. Existing works assumed that entity mentions were given and skipped the entity mention detection step due to a lack of high-quality multilingual training corpora. To overcome this limitation, we propose mReFinED, the first end-to-end multilingual entity linking. Additionally, we propose a bootstrapping mention detection framework that enhances the quality of training corpora. Our experimental results demonstrated that mReFinED outperformed the best existing work in the end-to-end MEL task while being 44 times faster.
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2023.findings-emnlp.1007
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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15080–15089
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.1007
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.1007
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Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Weiwei Cheng, Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amir Saffari, and Jens Lehmann. 2023. mReFinED: An Efficient End-to-End Multilingual Entity Linking System. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 15080–15089, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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mReFinED: An Efficient End-to-End Multilingual Entity Linking System (Limkonchotiwat et al., Findings 2023)
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